GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 41, 9 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TBI3 BIUTjKJH. CENSUS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, July 7. The census returns of 1911 disclose a sharp contraction in the numbers engaged in domestic service and an expansion in the number engaged in agriculture. The Anglican clergy declined from 25,235 to 24,850 and Catholic priests increased from 2840 to 3302. DANGEROUS ICEBERGS. Melbourne, July 8. The steamer Star of India has sent a wireless message t'lmt she sight id four largo icebergs on Friday in latitude 47% 8.. longitude 106 E. (sorn.; distance south-east of Perth), in a position (Dangerous to navigation. BUBONIC PL At; [IE. Nevr York, July 7. Bubonic plague has broken out -n New Orleans. Two people are dead and three have been removed to hospital. BRITISH TRADE. London, July 7. imports for the quarter decreased £37,477,000, and the exports £2,930,592. Re-exports increased by £212,:(17. SMALLPOX CASKS. . Sydney, July 8. Two inmates of the Liverpool A v v 1 :jin are suffering from smallpox. BROKEN IIILL MINI). Sydney, July 8. 1 lie Broken Hill Proprietary Company is issuing locally £60,000 worth of 0 per cent, debentures at 97 with a currency of twenty years. A HOLD DISCO VERY'. ' Melbourne, Julv 8. l«4U)biters found a 20*oimh.y. iiug"et in an old-timo alluvial ground at Runm.yong and subsequently an outcrop of payable quartz was discovered. DLfTOir EAST INDIE*. I The Hague. July 7. Hie naval authorities have decide 1 I to tram natives, in tli<> Dutch Indies a< I Seamen, signallers, gunners, and torpedoists for Hie fleet. Tliev will >- 0 - eeive the-same training as Dutch sailors, but will be kept apart from th" men. NEWCASTLE COAL KXI'OK'IX Sydney. .Inly S. Hie coal exported from during til., lust luUf-vwi,- was '2 :Ki7'"')<! / tons, an increase of ;!<i:i.:!2K toils New Zealand took 325,U0 tons, an increase of 28.000 tons over (he previous i half-year, lhe foreign export increased i 29(1.000 tons. 1